- Date
- May 15, 2025, 20:20 local (May 16, 2025, 01:20 UTC)
- Place
- Wahoo, NE · Airport ramp
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N2614VCessna 177RG
- Defining event
- Taxi: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250515005449A
- Case key
- 200171
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from an obstacle during taxi operations.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that as he taxied the airplane to the ramp, he steered toward one of the available parking spots, and the left wing of the airplane struck a light pole which resulted in substantial damage to the outboard end of the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2614V
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0632
- Built
- 1974
- Airframe hours
- 6,457
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 4, 2024
- Departed
- KDTN · Shreveport, LA
- Destination
- KAHQ · Wahoo, NE
- Airport
- AHQ · Wahoo Municipal Airport, runway 20, 4,101 × 75 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 47
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 9, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,534.4 total · 442.8 in this make and model · 1,470.6 as pilot in command · 235.1 in the last 90 days · 58.9 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.56 inHg
- Observed at
- KAHQ, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KAHQ 160135Z AUTO 22006KT 10SM CLR 21/05 A2956 RMK AO2 T02110053
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 20, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.6 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.